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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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 Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 4:36 pm Post subject: Can furreners be organ donors? |
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| And what about blood donation? A friend of mine tried to donate blood after her coworker's mom got in bad accident, but was turned down for having lived in Korea less than a year. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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| I've been turned down a couple of times for donating blood. "Foreign blood is not suited to Koreans". But another time I was asked for blood because they know I'm O-. I think it depends on the xenophobia level of the nurse. |
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vlcupper
Joined: 12 Aug 2004
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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On the Red Cross website it says any foreigner can go to a Red Cross Blood Donation center. It also said they have English speaking nurses, etc.
BULLSHIT
I called to schedule a time to donate, and they hung up on me. A coworker called and they told her that I'd have to know Korean first. She told them what it said on the website, and they said they didn't know anything about that. I emailed the Red Cross, and the person who emailed me back said it was impossible for a foreigner to donate because of guidelines set by the government. They didn't want to run the risk of getting contaminated blood.
Bullshit. There are ways to test blood for diseases without ruining the whole damn supply.
Bottomline: They don't want dirty foreign blood contaminating the pure Korean race.
*beep* them. I used to donate to the Red Cross everytime I saw the donation box. They don't want my blood they don't get my money. |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| I've been turned down a couple of times for donating blood. "Foreign blood is not suited to Koreans". But another time I was asked for blood because they know I'm O-. I think it depends on the xenophobia level of the nurse. |
It's nice to know there's another O- person in the country (any others?) |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| bluelake wrote: |
| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| I've been turned down a couple of times for donating blood. "Foreign blood is not suited to Koreans". But another time I was asked for blood because they know I'm O-. I think it depends on the xenophobia level of the nurse. |
It's nice to know there's another O- person in the country (any others?) |
I'm O+, that's half as good! |
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ChimpumCallao
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: your mom
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| I've been turned down a couple of times for donating blood. "Foreign blood is not suited to Koreans". But another time I was asked for blood because they know I'm O-. I think it depends on the xenophobia level of the nurse. |
wow! you kid. i guess they dont want anything affecting the purity of their precious race. how very 1940s.
something that i have noticed when getting bloodwork done here is that the nurses NEVER WEAR gloves. I saw this nurse just handling bloody syringes like it was nobody's business.
My deduction is that they think because their AIDS rate is low, that protection in many ways in unecessary? I wonder how such a buttload of Koreans have herpes, pardon...mouth blisters, then. |
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vlcupper
Joined: 12 Aug 2004
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I wonder how such a buttload of Koreans have herpes, pardon...mouth blisters, then. |
Because they kissed foreigners. Koreans don't get herpes from other kimchi-eating Koreans. Didn't you read the manual? |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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| bluelake wrote: |
| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| I've been turned down a couple of times for donating blood. "Foreign blood is not suited to Koreans". But another time I was asked for blood because they know I'm O-. I think it depends on the xenophobia level of the nurse. |
It's nice to know there's another O- person in the country (any others?) |
I'm O- too  |
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fidel
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: North Shore NZ
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Just had a blood drive at my school and a number of my students were rejected because they had recently spent time(several years) in mad-cow disease countries. From that I can extrapolate that foreigners are rejected just because they are foreigners rather because Koreans are trying to protect themselves from disease. Sure you can test but why bother when its just easier to reject. Judging from the huge numbers of students who give blood I doubt very much they ever have shortages like back home and can afford to be picky. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| ... Sure you can test but why bother when its just easier to reject. Judging from the huge numbers of students who give blood I doubt very much they ever have shortages like back home and can afford to be picky. |
Blood Donor Shortage Raises Concern
Blood donations have been on the decline, placing the nation on alert over blood supplies to patients.
By Kim Rahn, Korea Times (March 22, 2005)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200503/kt2005032216404610510.htm
Blood in short supply after scandal
Hospitals scramble for donations
After a recent prosecution investigation revealed that the Korea National Red Cross' careless monitoring of blood used in transfusions resulted in the infection since 1999 of 19 people with diseases, including AIDS and hepatitis, hospital blood supplies are plummeting. The Seoul District Prosecutors Office indicted 27 officials of the Red Cross on Thursday on charges of providing tainted blood.... Soldiers account for about 30 percent of the blood donations while students contribute 43 percent.... "If this situation continues, there might not even be enough blood available for traffic accident patients," said Kim Dae-won, a Samsung Medical Center doctor.
by Park Tae-kyun, JoongAng Daily (August 3, 2004)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200408/03/200408032333403779900090409041.html
A blood supply in crisis
JoongAng Daily (October 12, 2003)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200310/12/200310122152413479900090109011.html
Bigots turn donors away
by Steven A. Stupak, JoongAng Daily (October 15, 2003)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200310/15/200310152220080309900090109013.html
Blood Donor Shortage Raises Concern
http://photo.hankooki.com/gisaphoto/20050322/sian1008200503221922400050322blood-1.jpg |
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fidel
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: North Shore NZ
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| I stand corrected |
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vlcupper
Joined: 12 Aug 2004
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, hell, I'd be glad to donate but I don't want to contaminate the pure and perfect Korean race with my horrible non-kimchi infused whitegirl blood. |
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peony
Joined: 30 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| where's hojucandy to reply when ya need him?! i think he's said that he donated quite a few times and they were happy to take his blood |
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denverdeath
Joined: 21 May 2005
Location: Boo-sahn
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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| A friend of mine, who speaks Korean very well, has tried to donate blood and been rejected numerous times. No real reason is ever given. He really never understood it because he regularly gives in Canada and even though the Canadian Red Cross has had a scandal or two of its own, it can't be much worse than the Korean one, right? |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:06 am Post subject: |
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| alright, what is that email address? time to start harrassing them. |
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